A semi-annual multi-media magazine featuring Experimental Literature with commentary by the authors

Each piece here exemplifies to some degree, even if it's a stretch, Experimental Literature, otherwise called Non-Traditional, Avant-Garde. What does that subset of Literary Fiction suggest? Experimental Writing has a long list of presses, articles, websites, books, and more on that deliciously elusive theme. What ways can writers explore beyond the traditions, and what are the traditions, and the reasons?